Boudicca, destroyer of London
WHAT: Boudicca / Boadicea and her Daughters WHERE: Westminster Embankment (map) BY WHOM: Thomas Thorneycroft WHEN: 1902
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The Eton College Chapel Gargoyle
UPDATE: mea culpa – the image that features above this article is not, as I originally thought, that of M R James. My thanks to […]
The Ascent of W1: the Marble Arch Mound
I actually thought it might be a good idea. It was certainly an idea worth exploring, and perhaps wacky/left field enough to work; plant a […]
The 4500 year old Standard of Ur
Back in the British Museum for the first time since lockdown and prepping for a real life tour with a real life guest. The Standard […]
American Memorials in London
Another map, this one done for my UKToursOnline talk, “Star-Spangled Capital”. That’s about statues and memorials to Americans in London, and includes presidents, Founding Fathers, […]
Statues: the Edith Cavell Memorial
WHAT: Edith Cavell Memorial: WHERE: St Martin’s Place (map) BY WHOM: Sir George Frampton WHEN: 1920
Video: Favourite Museums and Galleries
Another free talk from me and my four friends at UKToursOnline. Here we look forward to the reopening of the UK’s galleries and museums by […]
The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
If you should come into the Abbey through the West Door and into the nave, you will walk over the memorial to Sir Winston Churchill, but everyone, whether […]
The Museum of the Home
To the reopened (after a 3 ½ year, £18m+ revamp) Museum of the Home, a London Society tour with the museum director Sonia Solicari, and […]
The Camels of Eastcheap
Eastcheap – from an old english word for market (and “east” to distinguish it from the original Westcheap, now ‘Cheapside’) – runs from Monument tube […]